Actor. He was popular character performer, best remembered for the role as Doc Hiram Baker on the television series "Little House on the Prairie". He was a law student at UCLA before deciding to try acting at the age of 27. After a few stage performances, he was given a guest role on the 1950s TV series "Dragnet". He went to work on countless TV series such as "Wagon Train", "The Twilight Zone", "Have Gun Will Travel", "Perry Mason", "Bonanza", "M*A*S*H" and "Knots Landing". For feature films, he appeared in "The Light in the Forest" (1958), "Pork Chop Hill" (1959), "Shenandoah" (1965), "The Learning Tree" (1969), "Gentle Savage" (1973) and "Power" (1986). (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)